Glints
✧ ✦ ⋆ ✩
Four-pointed and small. ✦ is filled and brightest, ⋆ is smallest, ✧ is the default.
Glints, trails and ✧
Sparkle Kaomoji
Sparkle characters are texture, not objects. Where a star is a thing you can point at, a sparkle is a glint coming off something else, which is why these faces come out excited or enchanted instead of merely decorated.
(✧ᴗ✧)
Quick answer
Which one should you use?
(✧ᴗ✧) is the standard sparkle kaomoji — four-pointed glints replacing both eyes, meaning dazzled or full of anticipation. Sparkle characters (✧ ✦ ⋆ ✩) are small and four-pointed; star characters (★ ☆) are large and five-pointed. Sparkles work as eyes and trails because they suggest light; stars work as ornaments because they suggest an object.
Copy and paste
20 sparkle kaomoji
Every face is plain text. Tap one to copy it, then paste it wherever you are typing — it travels as ordinary characters, not as an image.
(✧ᴗ✧)
Sparkling eyes
The standard. Dazzled, or about to get what it wants.
(✦ ᴗ ✦)
Solid glints
✦ is filled, so it reads brighter than ✧.
(*✧ω✧*)
Blushing sparkle
Glints and blush marks together.
｡ﾟ✧(◡‿◡)✧ﾟ｡
Sparkle framed
Glints outside the face with dot trails beyond them.
(ﾉ✧ω✧)ﾉ
Throwing sparkle
Raised arms with glinting eyes.
⋆( ˘ ᵕ ˘ )⋆
Quiet sparkle
⋆ is the smallest glint; understated.
(✩ᴗ✩)
Outlined sparkle
✩ is hollow and sits between ✧ and ☆.
✧*｡(◕‿◕)✧*｡
Trailing sparkle
The trail suggests motion off to one side.
( ˙▿˙ )✧
Sparkle aside
A single glint decorating the message.
(✧∀✧)
Excited sparkle
An open ∀ mouth under glinting eyes.
˚₊·(◕ᴗ◕)·₊˚
Dust frame
Subscript and degree marks as faint scattered light.
(✧ ˘ ω ˘ ✧)
Sleepy sparkle
Glints outside closed eyes.
*✧･ﾟ(´ᵕ`)*✧･ﾟ
Full sparkle
The most decorated face here.
(✦‿✦)
Sparkle smile
Solid glints above a plain curved mouth.
｡･ﾟ✧(◠‿◠)✧ﾟ･｡
Symmetrical sparkle
Mirrored trails either side.
(⋆ᴗ⋆)
Small glints
The most restrained sparkle face.
(✧ᵕ✧)ﾉ
Waving sparkle
One raised hand with glinting eyes.
⋆ ˚ (◡‿◡) ˚ ⋆
Scattered light
Ring marks read as faint distant glints.
(✧≖‿≖)
Sly sparkle
One glint, one half-lidded eye — scheming.
(*ﾟ✧ﾟ*)
Sparkle centred
A single glint used as the mouth instead of the eyes.
How they are built
The parts these faces are made of
Kaomoji are assembled rather than drawn. Once you can see the components, you can adjust any face on this page instead of hunting for a different one.
Dust
｡ ﾟ ˚ ₊ · *
Scattered marks with no shape of their own. Used in trails, where the eye takes them for light and stops seeing characters.
Trails
*:･ﾟ✧ ⋆｡° ｡･ﾟ✧
Several marks in a row leading away from the face. They imply movement, which a single glint does not.
Placement
(✧ x ✧) / (x x)✧ / ✧(x x)✧
As eyes the face is dazzled; aside it decorates the message; framing it, the whole face is lit.
Before you paste
Getting them to arrive intact
Paste as plain text
Markdown and rich-text editors treat backslashes, underscores and asterisks as formatting. Sparkle trails are the most affected, because most of them begin with an asterisk.
Sparkles are text, not emoji
✧ and ✦ are Dingbats characters that take the colour of the surrounding text. ✨ is an emoji with its own artwork, so it will always look like a separate object dropped beside the face.
One trail, not two
A trail on one side gives you motion. Mirror it on both sides and you get a frame instead, which is calmer, and usually not the effect people came for.
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Faces with a full write-up
Some of these have their own page covering where the face came from and how its meaning has shifted.
Questions
Sparkle Kaomoji FAQ
What is the sparkle kaomoji?
(✧ᴗ✧) is the standard — four-pointed glints in place of both eyes, meaning dazzled, impressed or full of anticipation. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧, which throws a trail of sparkles, is more famous but is really a kawaii face using sparkle as decoration.
What is the difference between sparkle and star kaomoji?
Sparkles (✧ ✦ ⋆ ✩) are small and four-pointed and read as light glinting off something. Stars (★ ☆) are large and five-pointed and read as objects. That is why sparkles work as eyes and trails, while stars work better as ornaments worn beside the face.
How do you make a sparkle trail in text?
String several small marks together leading away from the face — *:･ﾟ✧ and ⋆｡°✩ are the two common patterns. The individual characters carry no meaning; the effect comes from the sequence thinning out, which the eye takes as light trailing off.
Are sparkle kaomoji the same as the ✨ emoji?
No. ✧ and ✦ are plain text characters that take the colour of whatever they are written in, so they blend into the face. ✨ is an emoji drawn in colour by each platform, so it always sits beside the kaomoji as a separate object instead of joining it.
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